Return policy: Hassle‐free or your money‐back guarantee?

This article compares the profitability of two pervasively adopted return policies—money‐back guarantee and hassle‐free policies. In our model, a seller sells to consumers with heterogeneous valuations and hassle costs. Products are subject to quality risk, and product misfit can only be observed post‐purchase. While the hassle‐free policy is cost advantageous from the seller's viewpoint, a money‐back guarantee allows the seller to fine‐tune the consumer hassle on returning the product. Thus, when the two return policies lead to the same consumer behaviors, the hassle‐free policy dominates. Conversely, a money‐back guarantee can be more profitable even if on average, high‐valuation consumers experience a lower hassle cost than the low‐valuation ones. The optimal hassle cost can be higher when product quality gets improved; thus, it is not necessarily a perfect proxy or signal of the seller's quality. We further allow the seller to adopt a mixture of these policies, and identify the concrete operating regimes within which these return policies are optimal among more flexible policies. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 61: 403–417, 2014     

金属体在海水中运动产生的感应电场建模

分析了金属体在海水中运动产生感应电场的机理。采用镜像法推导了水下垂直和水平直流电流元在海水中的电场表达式,进一步导出了海水中运动金属体切割地磁场而在海水中产生的感应电场数学模型,并计算分析了运动金属体的感应电场大小及空间分布。仿真计算结果表明,20m长的金属椭球体,以4m/s的航速在水下10m航行时,在水下30m左右感应电场的量级为nV/m,并且该电场在空间分布上有明显的特征。     

采用波数域方法分析细长柱壳的振动与声辐射特性

采用波数域方法对细长柱壳进行振动与辐射噪声分析。在获得细长柱壳表面振动后,法向振动在波数域展开为波数谱,结构振动波数特征由此得以直观展现,与辐射噪声相关的有效振动量得以定量给出。对细长柱壳的波数谱分析表明:低阶周向波数振动是其参与有效声辐射的主要成分,通过不等间距分舱可以在一定程度上控制有效声辐射振动级,从而控制结构的噪声辐射,但对整体呼吸运动的振动则效果不显著。     

运动模糊图像的运动模糊方向鉴别

曝光瞬间造成图像模糊的运动通常作为直线运动近似处理,若能找出模糊图像的运动模糊方向,并将之旋转到水平轴,则二维问题可简化为一维来处理,大大简化由模糊图像估计出运动模糊点扩散函数以及图像恢复的过程,并为图像恢复的并行计算创造有利条件。由于运动模糊降低了运动方向上图像的高频成分,沿着运动方向实施高通滤波(方向微分),可保证微分图像灰度值(绝对值)之和最小。基于此,本文利用双线性插值的方法,固定并适当选取方向微分的微元大小,构造出3×3方向微分乘子,得到了高效高精度的自动鉴别运动模糊方向的新方法,并通过数值实验进行了验证。     

D0影响亚硝酸型SND工艺的机理探讨

亚硝酸型SND污水生物脱氮新工艺因兼具短程硝化和同时硝化反硝化工艺的优势而具有很强的开发潜力。在介绍亚硝酸型SND工艺特点之后,着重从微环境理论、微生物特性及化学计量学等角度较为深入地探讨了溶解氧浓度(DO)影响亚硝酸型SND工艺脱氮效果的机理,从理论上进一步证实了DO对于亚硝酸型SND工艺的重要性。     

Mechanical behavior and failure mechanism of polyurea nanocomposites under quasi-static and dynamic compressive loading

Polyurea is an elastomeric material that can be applied to enhance the protection ability of structures under blast and impact loading.In order to study the compressive mechanical properties of SiC/polyurea nanocomposites under quasi-static and dynamic loading,a universal testing machine and split Hop-kinson pressure bar(SHPB)apparatus were used respectively.The stress-strain curves were obtained on polyurea and its composites at strain rates of 0.001-8000 s-1.The results of the experiment suggested that increase in the strain rates led to the rise of the flow stress,compressive strength,strain rate sensitivity and strain energy.This indicates that all of the presented materials were dependent on strain rate.Moreover,these mechanical characters were enhanced by incorporating a small amount of SiC into polyurea matrix.The relation between yield stress and strain rates were established using the power law functions.Finally,in order to investigate the fracture surfaces and inside information of failed specimens,scanning electron microscopy(SEM)and micro X-ray computed tomography(micro-CT)were used respectively.Multiple voids,crazes,micro-cracks and cracking were observed in fracture surfaces.On the other hand,the cracking propagation was found in the micro-CT slice images.It is essential to understand the deformation and failure mechanisms in all the polyurea materials.     

基于OFDM技术的水声语音通信系统设计与实现

为了克服水声信道具有的有效通信带宽及其时变、空变等特性,采用了能够有效抗频率选择性衰减、抗多径干扰以及具有很高频谱利用率的正交频分复用技术;使用AMBE-2000芯片对语音编码进行压缩,设计了适用于水声信道环境下的实时语音通信系统,并对系统的主要硬件电路和软件设计进行了分析;对语音信号作了插入舒适噪声、回波消除、音量控制等处理;最后,进行了系统联调和水池试验,结果显示:该语音通信系统通话清晰,证明了该系统的有效性和实用性.     

Vague物元及熵权的空袭目标威胁评估

为了应对防空反导作战需求,提出了一种基于Vague物元及熵权的空袭目标威胁评估方法。建立了空袭目标威胁评估复合Vague物元的概念,提出了一种新的将复合Vague物元转化为适合度物元的排序函数,使复合Vague物元便于量化处理,并运用熵权法客观地计算出了各空袭目标属性的权重,根据空袭目标威胁评估物元与正负理想物元的相对贴近度最终得到了目标威胁程度的排序。实例分析验证了该方法的实用性和有效性。     

一类三维混沌系统的T—S模糊控制

针对一类三维混沌系统,在用T—S模糊模型重构该系统的基础上,利用反馈控制思想和并行分布补偿（PDC）技术,基于Lyapunov理论为该系统设计了状态反馈控制器．利用线性矩阵不等式（LMI）可求出模糊控制器的参数,实现以衰减率a全局渐近稳定．对该系统的一个重要特例—ADVP系统的仿真结果验证了该控制方法的有效性．     

基于差分和神经网络的同步辐射光源图像压缩方法

针对常见的图像无损压缩方法效果不佳问题,提出了一种基于图像差分和神经网络的同步辐射光源图像无损压缩方法。通过图像差分以减少图像序列内部的线性相关性,训练神经网络模型以学习图像序列内部的非线性相关性,得到预测概率分布,结合算术编码压缩。为加速预测和编码过程,将像素值按位分裂为两部分进行并行处理。基于上海同步辐射光源图像的测试表明,相较于便携式网络图形、JPEG2000和自由无损图像格式等,该方法可将压缩率提升20%以上,像素位分裂可以缩短30%的模型预测和编码时间。